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by antfarm 1y ago
https://www.peta.org/blog/dont-buy-a-gecko/ https://www.peta.org/features/gecko-facts/
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by antfarm 1y ago
Transitioning from iOS development to web and embedded development with Elixir (Phoenix/LiveView and Nerves). The direction Big Tech is heading made me reevaluate what is important in my career and life.
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by antfarm 1y ago
I strongly dislike ChatGPT's overly enthusiastic and opportunistic "personality" as well as its verbosity. Reminds me a bit of C3PO. I only use it very casually, but with my first prompt I always tell it to not pretend having
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The advertising industry is fuelling climate disaster (2021)(theguardian.com)
2 points by antfarm 1y ago|0 comments
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by antfarm 1y ago
Here is some fodder for your thoughts: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/11/advert...
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by antfarm 1y ago
Nothing wrong with paying for a commercial service. I rather pay with money than indirectly by losing time and being annoyed in the best case and manipulated in the worst case. With the sites that I choose to not visit (Facebook, X, TikTok,
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by antfarm 1y ago
The comments you criticised describe a solution or at least a workaround, but you are just stating a problem, thus my honest question. No need to get snarky.
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by antfarm 1y ago
Thanks, but this does not apply to me, not using Chrome is part of my ad blocking strategy.
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by antfarm 1y ago
There is nothing wrong with paying for software. I say this as a professional software developer ;)
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by antfarm 1y ago
I see. Your mentioning of Google distracted me, how are they involved?
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by antfarm 1y ago
But how are you going to change that?
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by antfarm 1y ago
Please excuse my ignorance, but what is the superior way? Pi-Hole?
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by antfarm 1y ago
My way to circumvent most of this: I am using Safari with AdBlock Pro and AdBlock and see zero ads when browsing the web. I spend more time on YouTube than I care to admit, so I got a Premium subscription, bought an extension called Un
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by antfarm 1y ago
Cool idea of a great artist to stay relevant in the era of AI generated muzak!
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by antfarm 1y ago
I especially ran into it when doing last year's Advent of Code. I restricted myself to not using mutable state or custom data types, i.e. structs or classes, writing in a functional style. That style involved a lot of method chaining (
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by antfarm 1y ago
I love Swift, but it has the only compiler that ever told me to rewrite my code because it cannot analyze it in a reasonable length of time.
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by antfarm 1y ago
I guess automatic sorting, washing at the right temperature, drying and maybe folding is what someone who washes their own clothes would wish for. Talking to the appliance is probably not that high on their list.
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by antfarm 1y ago
I had to think of the Dilbert comic strip where the pointy haired boss wants an SQL database and asks Dilbert what colour it should have. Turns out someone already made a version with AI as the desirable technology du jour. https:/&#x
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Politeness could be costly for OpenAI(techcrunch.com)
3 points by antfarm 1y ago|0 comments
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X-ray vision for engineering teams(workweave.dev)
1 points by antfarm 1y ago|0 comments
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Douglas Rushkoff: I Will Not Be Autotuned – Crashing Technosolutionism [video](youtube.com)
3 points by antfarm 2y ago|0 comments
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by antfarm 2y ago
This is where they are planning to send US citizens soon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Confinement_Center
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by antfarm 2y ago
This is where yo can end up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Confinement_Center
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Weirding the Digital: An Invocation with Douglas Rushkoff [video](youtube.com)
1 points by antfarm 2y ago|0 comments
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by antfarm 2y ago
This might interest you, especially around minute 23... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9WPp-g0LBs SXSW 2025 | Weirding the Digital: An Invocation with Douglas Rushkoff
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Why Musk, Trump and tech elites seek collapse of global order(thenerdreich.com)
7 points by antfarm 2y ago|2 comments
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Revenge of the shy kids: How Elon Musk and co. went from nerds to bullies(english.elpais.com)
6 points by antfarm 2y ago|2 comments
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by antfarm 2y ago
The new fascist administration deporting innocent (literally and as in "innocent until proven guilty") people to a gulag in El Salvador is enough reason for me not to travel to the USA anytime soon.
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by antfarm 2y ago
I hope Donald Trump's life ends in a prison cell.
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by antfarm 2y ago
It's in the quote. "Once that's done, you can move on to people with more social power – immigrants, blue collar workers, school children."

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